Dr Glenn Carruthers, Tuesday 25th of October 2011 : C5C498 - Palermo Room, 4:00PM until 5:30PM., A cognitive model of the sense of embodiment in a (rubber) hand
Speaker : Dr Glenn Carruthers Date : 25th of October 2011, 4:00PM until 5:30PM Location : C5C498 - Palermo Room, Macquarie University. Seminar Abstract A cognitive model of the sense of embodiment in a (rubber) hand The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is the experience of an artificial body part being a real body part and the experience of touch coming from that model. An explanation of this illusion takes significant steps towards explaining the experience of embodiment in one’s own body. I present a new qualitative cognitive model to explain the RHI. I argue that the sense of embodiment arises when an on-line representation of the candidate body part is represented as matching an off-line prototype representation of what one’s body is usually like. The distinguishing feature of this model is the off-line body representation and the process of matching an on-line model to an off-line model, both of which are to be understood in terms of a conceptual space. I close by suggesting that Tsakiris’ model cannot not account for non-visual forms of the illusion and considering future directions for completing the ‘conceptual space’ model. -- Professor John Sutton Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/) Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/ Memory Studies journal: http://mss.sagepub.com/ ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD): http://www.ccd.mq.edu.au/ _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list: http://sydphil.info 1000+ subscribers now served!! To UNSUBSCRIBE, change your MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS, find ANSWERS TO COMMON PROBLEMS, or visit our ONLINE ARCHIVES, please go to the LIST INFORMATION PAGE: http://sydphil.info
